The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 13
Then spread the red cloth quickly under the tree, so that the woodpecker may think it is a fire, and in her terror drop the root.
Who acts: woodpecker, cloth · What happens: spread, think, be, drop · To what, where: red cloth, tree, fire, root, terror · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woodpecker, cloth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 spread | advmod |
| 2 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cloth | det |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cloth | amod |
| 5 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spread | obj |
| 6 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 2 spread | advmod |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spread | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 think | punct |
| 11 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 16 think | mark |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 so | fixed |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woodpecker | det |
| 14 | woodpecker | woodpecker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 think | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 think | aux |
| 16 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 spread | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fire | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 fire | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 fire | det |
| 20 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 think | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 drop | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 drop | cc |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 terror | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 terror | nmod:poss |
| 25 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 drop | obl |
| 26 | drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 spread | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 root | det |
| 28 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 drop | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | the red cloth | the tree | then | quickly property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme under tree=Destination | ||
| 2 | think speech: other | may | the woodpecker | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | cloth | a fire | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | drop | present | the root | woodpecker's terror | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent root=Theme in terror=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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